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Virtue Quotes
"No amount of money can fill your heart up with what kindness and compassion can."
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"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
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"Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease."
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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
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"L'honneste est stable et permanent."
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"Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart."
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
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"The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently."
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"Affectation of candour is common enough-one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design-to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad-belongs to you alone."
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"The child is taught form earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the world wherever she goes, and that they will always look after her. The brothers inhabit the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and poetry. The brothers can be called upon in any critical situation for rescue and assistance. When you die, your four spirit brothers collet your soul and bring you to heaven."
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"These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life."
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"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."
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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
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"Nobility is not only in forgiveness."
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"We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue."
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"I almost wish I hadn't any conscience; its so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. I can't help wishing sometimes that Father and Mother hadn't been so particular about such things. Ah Joe, instead of wishing that, thank God that Father and Mother were particular and pity from your heart those who have no such guardians to hedge them round with principles that may seem like prison walls to impatient youth, but which will prove sure foundations to build character upon in womanhood."
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"For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue."
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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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"They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity."
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"Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them."
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"It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland."
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"There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses, --only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"The only reward of virtue is virtue, the only way to have a friend is to be one."
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"The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are."
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"The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty."
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"Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved."
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"Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so."
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"Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!"
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